PEARL HARBOUR
LOSSES COULD HAVE BEEN LESS (Rec. 1.45). WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. “Losses at Pearl Harbour would have been materially reduced and the Japanese fleet might have suffered considerable damage had Admiral Kimmel carried out the ‘perfectly specific and'entirely clear orders’ given him-on November 27, 1941, to prepare for possible attack,” said Admiral Turner, at the Pearl-Harbour inquiry.; “We know by experience that carrierbased attack is difficult to stop and a considerable part of the Japanese attacking force’might have got in but it could have been broken up and had considerably less effect. We had 185 fighter aircraft and the Japanese had 112. The American Fleet had undergone many months’ preparation for just such an attack and within the limits and materials of the programme I felt confident the Fleet was prepared and ready for it.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 62, 22 December 1945, Page 6
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